Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Koenig and his crew wear inter changeable unisex gear designed by Rudi Gernreich. The stars are Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, the hit team of Mission: Impossible. There is even the nucleus of an audience ready for Space: the Trekkies who have been homeless since 1969, when Star Trek went off the air. Dedicated cultists, they have made do with reruns, conventions and newsletters as they wait for big-time sci fi to come back to the small screen...
Fast action is needed. At the refugee center in Indiantown Gap, Pa., all the refugees must be moved out by early fall: the camp is not winterized. Though the other camps are located in warm climates, further delay can only demoralize the homeless Vietnamese. As TIME Correspondent Marcia Gauger reports from Indiantown Gap: "So far, despite the delays, the overcrowded conditions and the lack of privacy, most of the refugees remain unfailingly optimistic, if uncertain, about the future. They have a great dignity that must help them to endure the degrading circumstances of living in camps on handouts...
STRATFORD, Conn--"There is no man in America whose words will carry farther around the earth." So wrote Archibald MacLeish, winner of three Pulitzer Prizes, about Thornton Wilder, also a triple Pulitzer recipient. Yet Wilder's position in letters remains perplexing, for he is, at 78, something of a homeless and neglected...
...American Psychiatric Association has reported that "at least 90% of those in state and county mental hospitals are not dangerous to themselves or others." Bruce J. Ennis, a civil liberties lawyer who argued the Donaldson case, adds, "Most of them are just old. They are homeless, penniless, friendless and maybe not too smart." Many will not want to leave and will remain as voluntary patients. In other cases, authorities may now decree that patients are dangerous or simply unable to "live safely in freedom." Still, there will be new pressure to release large numbers, if only because better treatment will...
...Echeverria opened the proceedings by calling for a redistribution of world wealth and political power to bring about a "new international order." The International Women's Year could not make good on its promise of peace, declared Mrs. Sadat, "while Arab lands remain occupied, while the Palestinians remain homeless." Russian Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, head of the Soviet delegation, extolled her country to reporters as "the great exception as far as opportunity for women is concerned...